So You Think You Can Judge

Given even more dancers than usual to choose from - seven - from the
largest pool they'll have all season, 20, they had two "dance for their life"
decided finally not to eliminate anyone

"We've never done this before," Nigel Lythgoe said, regarding the
abdication of their duty.

Viewers had done their bit by leaving three couples with the least
votes: Clarice Ordaz and Jess LeProtto, Miranda Maleski and Robert Taylor Jr.,
and Jordan Casanova and Tadd Gadduang. And Mitchell Kelly automatically earned a
slot in the bottom when an injury prevented him from performing Tuesday
(doctors OK'd his participation Wednesday).

Judges, who this week included Mary Murphy and guest judge Megan
Mullally, were supposed to pick the two to go from the group, based on their "dance
for your life" solos.

Lythgoe asked Taylor and Kelly to dance again, but ultimately decided
they couldn't cut anyone. For this, he threw his celebrity guest under the bus,
saying "Blame it on Megan."

The result will be four will be cut next week. But if judges couldn't
pick two dancers to go this week, what makes them think they'll be able to select twice as many from the same pack next week?

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Roger Catlin is TV critic for the Hartford Courant and writes a daily column about what's on television called TV Eye. He is also on the board of the Television Critics Association. Before all of this, he was rock critic ... read more